Auxiliary card-feed.



J. POWERS.

AUXILIARY CARD FEED.

APPLlC ATPON riLED JUNE :4. m5.

1,282,626. Emma 00$. 22, 1918.

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James Powemt- Wtlnesses'f J. POWERS.

AUXILIARY CARD FEED.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14. 1915.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

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Inventor. Jamespowem'.

fi /mmzzgc 1 Wbtnesses" J. POWERS AUXILIARY CARD FE ED. APPLICATlON FILED JUNE 14} I915.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918 5 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

Inventor" JamesPower-s' Byhz'sfltty.

Witnesses.

J. POWERS. 5 AUXILIARY CARD FEED.

I APPLICATION FILED JUNE l4, IsIs. I

1,282,626. Patented 0ct.22,1918.

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' ETC-225033, TO POYVEES Application filed June 14 To all? whom it may; concern:

Be it. known that l, JAMES Poivnns, citizen of the l nitcd States. residing in New York, in the county of Nev York and State of New York, have. invented certain new and useful improvements in Auxiliary (ard- Feeds. of which the following a specification.

This invention relates to feeds for card manipulating machines which feeds prop erl v direct and position the cards that have been discharged from such machines and relates especially to feeds for properly directingz and positioning cards that have. been discharged from a sorting machine.

(inc of the main objects of the present invention is to provide an auxiliary card "feed for so directing the cards after having been passed through a sorting machine that they will ho arranged in proper order in the compartments into vvhich they arc fed.

As a matter of convenient-in it is desirable to arrange a plurality oi comnartinents in tiers, each tier containing; a number of coinpartnients one disposed above the other into which the cards are discharged according to their data. When being discharged into I these compartments. the cards are guided to their position by deflectors. it has been found in actual practice that when the cards are rapid ly discharged by feeding rolls. they will acquire a static charge of electricity due to which, when the cards are introduced into their respective compartments. they will readily cling to one of tilt. side. walls until their electricity is discharged. Consequcntly it' a second card is fed into such compartment before the first one has scoa rated from the. side-wall, such second card will drop onto the pile out of its order. To overcome this defect so that such intcrsorting will be absolutely prevented is another main object of the presentinvention.

To this end, a system of revolving rolls or cones is arranged and operated in each of the compartments upon which the cards are discharged from the sorting, machine and which revolving cones in turn direct the cards to their final position in an orderly pile.

- It. isstill another object of the present invention to provide such a construction of a compartment in which the finally sorted pack of cards an be quickly and easily removed from such compartment= Specification of letters Patent.

'lhcse. and other features. capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear iron the subjoined detail descrintion of one specific embodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichl inure 1 IS an elevation showing one side or; a sorting machine and the attached tiers of compartments, and. also showing: the system of levers whereby the initial deflectors of the several compar ments are actuated.

Fig. 2 elevation showing the other side of such machine with the attached tiers of compartments, on which side the coinpartnients are partially open showing; the revolving cones.

Fig; 3 is an enlarged iragmental view partly in section along the line 3'3 of looking in the direction of the arrows. I

Fig. i is afragincntal view partly in section along the line 4+4 of Fig. 3 showing 75 a side vi of the cones. I

'7 H r 1g. a is a tran'n'iental. view partly in sec-.

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lion alone thev line 5-5 of Fig. 3 showing plan view of the cones.

Fig. 6 is an axial section of one of the cones which is mounted on an idle shaft.

7 is an a-Xial section o'l orient the cones which is mounted. on the driving shaft. 8 is a diagrammatic view illustrating one complete passage of a card.

the emhodinien; .hown, there is provided a main frame 10 to one side. of which (the left of Fig. 1) at its upper end there is provided a bracket 11 on which a. card hopper 12 is mounted, the hopper 12 liavii'ig a reciprocating slide 13 forming the floor member of th hopper on which the cards. (T are supportsd and means of which slide 13 the cards are fed. to the feed. rolls 1%, the slide being connected by a suit able lever 15 to a cam link 16 pivoted at one end on the stud 1'7 and actuated by a cam 18 mounted onthe main driving shaft 19.

By means of the feed rolls 1%, each card is I passed between the plates 20 and ill. of the 10o card analyzing mocha ism Whcrcupontho pins arc actuated in accordance with the system tanningthe subject matter of my copending application, Serial No. 677,7?1, filed February 1912, to analyze the card, whereupon such of the pins as have found perforations actuate suitable leverage not shown to release alocking bar 2% which will permit its opposing rods 25 to be actuated which in turn will. set a deflector 516 in posi- U tion to 'ilel'lect the. card heiniz sorted. The arrangement a fully described in my co-- pending ap ilication is such that cach deflector ill opcratiwly connected with one of the pine 533 so that wl'icnever a certain pin 23 is actuated, its therote-connected deflector 26 will ho set and permit the card being sorted to be discharged into the comparb ment at the ci'itrance of which such dellewtor 26 lo ated, the deflector hcing maintained in such. act position. until after the card being sorted is discharged from between the plates and Q1 and advanced by suitable feed rolls to such deflectors 26, the deflectors 26 when set extending into such path. of movement of the discliiarged cards.

After a card has been deflected into a compartu'ient, a restoring mechanism is operated comprising the vertically extending baril'l' (Fig, 1) coi'n'u-cted by the link 28 with suitahlc actuating mechanism not shown where by the deflector 26 that has'bcen actuated, will be restored to non-dc looting position.

The compartinents are arranged in a plu- 'ality of tiers A, B, C, 1), etc., one adjacent to the other formed by a plurality of parallel walls 29 and a plu ality of end walls 30 secured to such parallel walls at one nd thcrcof and closing onc end of the tiers tormcdhy auch parallel walls, the other cud ol the tiers lining open to permit the removal of th cards from such cud. Each tier with the exception of the first one adjacent to the card analyzing mechanism is divided into two com 'mrtmcnts 31 and the lower compartment32'huving a floor member 33 which '15 inclined at a double angle, in other words, cxtcnda downwardly from its end wall 30 toward the open side of thecompartment and also inclines d mnwardly from one parallel wall to the othe parallel wall 251', that is, from the parallel wall 29 which is neares: to the card analyzing: mechanism lo the'othcr parallel Wall '29 which is rei'nolie from each card analyzing mechanism. Each of such floor member l3 is provided with a moose 3% shown as 01 red, at the free and 0t uch floor which is at the open and of the uupartnient. This recess 3% is provided to pcrmit the, operator to easily grasp the pack -ol" cars that may have ex llccted in such conlpartmem: in order to remove the same. 7 fiach upper compartment 31 is divided from a lower mmipartment 32 by means of a lloor nicmber 35 having a similar compound angular inclination but ezctcnding' downwardly from a partition 36 ar 'anged pa al-. lel to the parallel wall 29 of each tier ncar-. est from the card analyzing HIGClIZU'llt-illl and forming between such pa 'allel wall 2%. and partition 36 the passage 8? through which. the cards to lie conveyed to the lower compartment are passed, The floor member is; provided with a re recs. an similar to the reccse Gil: and for tho tame. lnllfpfilifi.

'Each of the upper compz'irtricnts 31 n'o'vidcd with. a curved guard 39 which is the upward continuation of the partitil'm 36 and in malformation first rounds outwardly toward the card analyzing mechanism and then droops over so that its free end extends into the upper compartmcnt 31. it the other sidcof the compartment 31, that is, the side nearest to the card analyzing mechanism, the upper end of the parallel wall 2%.) inclines toward the card analyzing mechanism and has at its upper end a curved guard 40 one free cud of which curves over into the compartment 31 and the body portion of which extends substantially pcrpcn' dicular as at ll and then inclines away from the -ar(l analyzing mechanism in an arc as at 42. compartment is constricted and insubstantiall protected from the outward bounding of a card that has been discharged into such compartment 31. The inclination at the upper end oi a-parallcl wall 29 forms with the rearward curved portion of a guard 39 an outwardly tlarinp, mouth for the passage 37. Al the lower end of the pansage 37 and forming; with the lioor member 35 an. inwardly directed chute to the lower conmartment 552,

Thus the entrance to an upper there is providcd'a deflector l3 prcfi-u'ahly posed on stub shafts pa 'allel to one an other and i i a plane substantially horizontal, the stub shafts being: each fixed to a partition ill; and a parallel wall 21-). and having loosely mounted thereon a collar ill on wl ich is fixed a roll 44. These rolls 44 are of particular conformation illustrated in section in Fi 6, each having a conc-shapcd body portion l? with a disk portion l8 at the narrow end of such cone-sha ')ed body portion extending outwardly from such narrow portion and a pulley conformation 49 adjacent to the disk portion 48, lhe disk portion 48 separating' such pulley conforniai'ion all) from the cone-ahapedbody portion 47. The disk portion 48 is provided with a cushion mcmbcr or leathe" covering 50 on the surfaces lhereof which face the cone-shaped Body portion l7. As shown in Fig. the. pulley conl'on mation -19 oi the roll ll which is nearest the ploi'lfilcil with two rolls; 50 similarto the a sesses rolls 44 one of which rolls 50, theone remote from the end wall 30 is,moun-ted on the shaft 51 which is common to all the rolls of the lower compartments 32 which are remote from end Well 30, ihis shaft 51 extending through the parallel Wells 2'8. (in such shaft 51 between each two adjacent parallel Wells 29 is'rotetably mounted e sleeve 52 on which a roll 50 is fixed, such roll 50 having a, conformation similar to the rolls 44, that is, oone-shsped body portion 53, at the constricted end of which is disposed e disk member 54 and a pulley conformation 55 adjacent to such disk member 54. The other roll 50 of e lower eoinpartnienc is mounted on a shaft which is the drive shaft for she cone-shaped roll system. These latter rolls 50 having e similar cone-shaped body portion 5?, disk member 58 end pulley conformation which are fixed so she drive shaft 56 by means of a pin 60 (Fig. 7). The disk members 5 and 58 of she rolls 50 are provided with a cover such as felt or leather 61 similar to the covering; 50 of she rolls 44. The rolls 50 adjacent to the end wall 30 are provided with pulley conformetions of greater diameter than the pulley conformations of the other rolls 50 similar to the rolls 4:1 so that the rolls 50 nearer the open end of the lower conipsrtiuents 32 may be revolved at a faster rates of speed The shaft 56 extends through all the purallel wells :29 being supported thereby and has one of its ends carried by a bracket 62, the free end of such shaft 56 extending through the bracket 6:2 and being provided with a bevel gear 63 in mesh with a bevel gear 64 the lower end of a shoit 55 which is rotote oly supported in abearing: 66 and is operetively connected at its upper end with the main shaft 19, motion being; thus transmitted so the Sheff; 56 by the shaft 19., All of the rolls 56 mounted on the shell, 56 are fixed to rotate with such shsi: 56 and they in turn lzrensmit rotation to the other rolls 44 and 50 The rolls of eecn single tier are connected by :1 single cellio he driven together, each llooi' member helngej provided with. recesses (Fig. 3) i-hrough which a hole 68 passes, pulley conformeiions or" the rolls 56 and rolls oi of each tier being disposed substantially in I l a single plane so that the belt 68 may conveniently he passedaround all four pulley conformeiions. From the foregoing, it? is obvious thal the rolls 4% and 50 nearer the 'open ends of their respective comporiments due to the lesser dmiueior of their pulley;

conformations compared to the dismel'er of the pulley" conformations of the other rolls will be rotated at a faster rule of speed.

The rolls ii and 5G as shown in Fig. 2 have the breeder ends of their cone/shaped bodies useless the curd analyzingmechanism so ille inclineliou of the cones will be in the some direction as the inclinetion of the door members 35 and Al; the 0 on end of each ceuipurcuieulz, both upper on lower, and fixed to the psrellel well 29 remote from the analyzing card mechanism, there is formed a stub shaft on which is pivolzelly mounted a metal strip 6? extending; downwardly therefrom, the stub shaft being preferably disposed near the upper end of a compartment and the strip (37 extending down beyond the door member of the compartment to which it is connected. The metal strip (37 is spring pressed so that its lower end norumlly rests against a floor member and will serve us a stop for the cords being discharged inio u compartment and on the other hand will he suliiciently resilient so that when the cords of another compartment are desired to be removed, the strip will be pressed outwardly to fuciliiure such removal.

The operation of the device is us follows:

The rolls liend 50 will be continuously operul'cd while analyzing takes place in the analyzing" mechanism 22, the arrangement being such that when u curd has been analyzed and u deflector 26 set, the card will be advanced to such deflector. deflected by such deflector into contact either with the guard 40 of on upper compzu'lmcul and prevented from bounding back by the curved portions of the guards 39 and i0 and thereupon dropped onto the rolls i by the role.- ti'on of which it will be discharged onto the floor and by its momentum carried into contact with the metal strip 67; or else do iiected by a deflector intou possess 3? from which it will strike the deflector 4%, be there by deflected onto the rolls 50 by the roliuiiou which il will be discharged ouio the floor 33 and o its momentum carried into conlieci; with a motel strip 67.

By inclining" lhe floor member. 355 and 33 at the double angle described, the ll'lGlLlOll of the cords will he enhanced so that the curds will with facilily assume their proper final position. The inclining of the soils il end 50 corresponds the inclinutieu of the door members and thus will deflect she cards to the proper angle before ihev arrive on the floor members, The rolls obviously will reiute in a direction lo advance the cords l'o word the open ends of their some 3 coinpurimonts. Each card when discharged inio a coiupurlment willv drop onto hol'h rolls of :1 compartment, and lime bv the difference in speed of the two rolls. the card will be sin]ultuneousl subjected to different rates of speed, and thereby the liability of ii card remaining: at rest on such rolls is greatly minimised. if uotculirclv annihilated. Furthermore. if the curd has acquired u ('(ll'ulll momentum due to the rotation of the rolls. the greatest speed oi the roll uooi'ci' the open end of o, compartment will, when the curd has left the roll nearer the end wall 30 and rests solely on the roll nearer the open end, he etl'ective to imrrease the speed of the card and thereby insure its passage to its proper destination.

With the present arrangement, the cards are placed in the hopper l2 taced downward, and as shown in the diagram of Fig. in, each card as it is ted into the sorting mechanism :22 discharged .theretrom and ted into a compartment 30 or 31 will through this entire operation face. downward so that. the pack of cards collected in any one of the compartmei'its will be in the order in which they were arranged in the hopper 1'2.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention.

1 claim:

y 1. In combination with card feeding means, of receiving means into which the cards are fed by such feeding means, means in said receiving means for properly direct-- ing and positioning the cards as they are fed into the same, floor members in said receiving means on which: the collected cards rest, said floor members being inclined at a compound angle, that is, down and toward one end and also from one side downwar l to the other so as to facilitate the movement of the cards into their final position,

"2. In combination with card feeding means, of receiving means into which the cards are ted by such feeding means, and revolving rolls in said receiving means for properly directing and positioning the cards as they are fed into the same.

3. In combination with feeding means, of receiving means tor receiving the cards discharged by such feeding means, and a plurality of feed rolls in said receiving. means for properly directing and positioning the cards as they are fed into the same, the last roll of said t'eed rolls in time of engaging the cards discharged in such receiving means having a comparatively faster rate of speed so as to increase the movement of the cards in order to properly hurl .them to their final postion.

4. In combination with card feeding means. of receiving means for receiving the cards discharged by such feeding means. and aphirality of feed rolls in said receiving means for pro 'ierly directing andpositioir in the cards as they are ted into the same, floor members in said receiving means on which the collected cards rest, said floor members being inclined at a compound angle, that is. down ard to ard one end and also one side downward to the other side so as to facilitate the movement, of the cards into their final position, said feed rolls hav-- ing coneshaped body portions by means of i which the cards are deflected to the proper which the'eollected cards rest, said receivinclination before striking the floor members. i

5. In combination with feeding means, of receiving:v means for receiving the cards dis charged by such t'eedin means. and a pluraiity of feed rolls in saic I'GCGiVlIlg' means for properly directing and position ng the cards as they are fed into the safe. floor members in said receiving means on which the collected cards rest,said floor lllC-llll)0l.' being inclined 7' at a compound angle, that is, downward toward one end and also one. side, downward to the other side so as to facilitate the movement of the -ards into their final position, said iced rolls each having a cone-shaped body portion, a pulley conformation and a dis: between the narrow end of the cone-shaped body portion and said pulley conformation to prevent the cards coming into contact with the pulley cimtorination, the coneshaped hodyportion of the feed rolls defleeting the cards to the proper inclination before they strike the floor liiQlllbQlS.

(3. In conibination with card feeding means. of receiving means for receiving the cards discharged by such feeding means, means for properly directing and positioning the ards as they are ted into the same, floor members in said receiving means on ing means being open at one end through which the collected MtlS may be removed and a resilient stop disposed at the open end of a receiving means and obstructing the removal of cards therethrough a ainst which stop the cards are fed by said c ireeting and positioning means, said resilient stop being sutiiciently resilient to permit its displacement and thereupon removal of the cards from such receiving means.

7. In combination with card feeding means, of receiving means for receiving the cards ted by such feeding means, feed IOlls for properly directing and positioning the cards as they are fed into thesame. floor members in said receiving means on which the collected cards rest, said receiving means being open at one end throngh which the collected cards may be removed, and a resilient stop disposed at the open end of a 15 receiving means and obstructing the removal of cards theretlnxnigh against. which stop the cards are fed by said directing and posh tioning means, said resilient stop being sutliciently resilient to' permit-its displace- 2 ment and thereupon removal of the cards from such receiving means.

8. In combination with card feeding means, of a plurality of tiers of compartments disposed one adjacent to the otln r into which the cards are, discharged by said card feeding means, each tier havingtwo compartments one above the other, there being a passage alongside of the upper comartment to permit the passage of cards a plurality of iced rolls in said receiving means for properly directing and positioning the cards as they are fed into the some, and floor members; in said receiving inea'na on which the collected cards rest; Raid teed rolls having cone-shaped body portions by means of which the cards are deflected to the proper inclination before striking the floor members.

20. In combination with card feeding means, of receivin means for receiving the cards t'edby such feeding means, a plurality of feed rollr; in said receiving-means for properly directing and positioning the cardH as they are ted. into the same, floor members in said receiving means on which the eolltarted cards rest, said feed rolls each ha ring a cone-shaped body portion, a pulley conformation and a disk between the narrow end of the cone-shaped body portion and said pulley conformation to preventthe cards coming into contact with the pulley eoni'ormation, the cone-sha a-d body portion oi the feed rolls deflecting the cards to the proper inclination before they strike the floor members.

21. In combination with card feeding means, of receiving means tor receiving the rards discharged by su h 'le ding XIWHHEL a plurality of iced rolle in said receiving means for properly directing and. position ing the cards a. they are ted into the same,

and floor members in said receiving means on Wni'ch the collected. cards rest, said feed rolls eacn having a cone-shaped body p0rtion, a pulley conformation and a disk between the narrow end. of the. coneshaped body portion and saidpnlley conformation to prevent the cards coming into contact with the pulley conformation, a cushion member on the surface of said disk facing said cone'shaped body )ortion against which the cards may strike Whenbeing discharged onto such roll, the cone-shaped body portion of the feed rolls deflecting the cards to the proper inclination before they strike the floor members.

22. In combination with card feeding means, f receiving means, into which the cards are fed by such feeding means, and

revolnble means for properly directing and positioning the e: rds as they are fed into the receiving means.

1&3. In con'ibination with card feeding means, of receiving means into, which the cards are fed by Such feeding means, and conical deflectors in said receiving means for 'properl y directing and positioning the cards as. the are fed into the receiving.

means.

JAMES POWERS. \Vitnesses:

(lrUs'rAv Dnnws,

H. D. PENNEY. 

